Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With thousands of thirsty U. S. citizens poised expectant along the U. S.-Ontario border, the Ontario Liquor Commission last week announced that it might be another fortnight before liquor sales began in the Province. Legally, however, Ontario last Monday became wet, added a new aspect to the U. S. liquor question...
...Ontario Law. Alcoholic liquors of all kinds may be purchased in any amount. They must be purchased at government stores, in government packages. They cannot be resold (under a jail-sentence penalty). Liquor can be bought only with permits; consumed only in the consumer's residence or in hotels...
Prices. The Government Liquor Commission will establish prices. Forecast: Scotch $7 Canadian whiskey $5; beer $2. Beer will be sold at cost; wines and whiskeys at a profit...
MacDonald's judgment is that of a practical, and what is more a libera statesman. It can be trusted further than that of professional reformers, who are passing now from liquor to evolution, cosmetics, and clean books, than that of officers of the W. C. T. U. and allied organizations, who may be suspected of looking to Prohibition for their bread and butter. It is really of tremendous significance that a man who would be characterized by most of the die-hards from the rural districts as a bolshevik and so hardly more to be respected than a common theif...
...prison and five jails have lodged "Uncle" Remus since his 1924 conviction on bootlegging charges. From headquarters at Death Valley Farm, near Cincinnati, he purchased four distilleries, organized a caravan of liquor-laden motor trucks, distributed whiskeys to bootleggers. Reputed to have made $5,000,000, he built an ornate, swimming-pooled home in Cincinnati. The Death Valley headquarters were raided in 1921; three years later he was en route to Atlanta...